Political Science Research and Methods

Papers
(The median citation count of Political Science Research and Methods is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Women on the ballot and women at the polls: how women's representation shapes voter turnout in local elections98
Ministries matter: technocrats and regime loyalty under autocracy65
Survey mode and satisfaction with democracy59
What's in a buzzword? A systematic review of the state of populism research in political science56
RAM volume 10 issue 3 Cover and Back matter55
Reward or punishment? The distribution of life-cycle returns to political office47
Affective polarization and democratic erosion: evidence from a context of weak partisanship39
The Obama effect? Race, first-time voting, and future participation35
Complaints about police misconduct have adverse effects for Black civilians33
The case for multiple UESDs and an application to migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea26
Leader-contingent sanctions as a cause of violent political conflict25
Where to place sensitive questions? Experiments on survey response order and measures of discriminatory attitudes24
Do parties’ representation failures affect populist attitudes? Evidence from a multinational survey experiment – CORRIGENDUM20
Access denied: how bureaucrats shape politicians’ incentives to choose restrictive asylum policies16
Equation balance in time series analysis: lessons learned and lessons needed16
Political exclusion and support for democratic innovations: evidence from a conjoint experiment on participatory budgeting16
Survey sampling in the Global South using Facebook advertisements – CORRIGENDUM15
Does support for redistribution mean what we think it means?12
Attitudes toward automation and the demand for policies addressing job loss: the effects of information about trade-offs12
The policy basis of group sentiments11
When does public diplomacy work? Evidence from China's “wolf warrior” diplomats11
The population ecology of interest groups and counter-mobilization: reproductive rights organizations in the United States, 1920–198510
Partisan communication in two-stage elections: the effect of primaries on intra-campaign positional shifts in congressional elections10
Do presidents favor co-partisan mayors in the allocation of federal grants?10
The value of dignity appeals: evidence from a social media experiment10
Beaten ballots: political participation dynamics amidst police interventions – CORRIGENDUM9
Improved LM test for robust model specification searches in covariance structure analysis: application in political science research9
Legislative reciprocity: Using a proposal lottery to identify causal effects9
Does vote buying undermine confidence in ballot secrecy? Theory and experimental evidence9
Economic interventions, economic perceptions and political support during the Eurozone crisis9
Who's cheating on your survey? A detection approach with digital trace data9
Are solidarity and identification as people of color distinct? Validating new measures across Asian, Black, Latino, and Multiracial Americans8
A nonparametric entropy-based measure of mass political polarization8
Trade politics at the checkout lane: ethnocentrism and consumer preferences8
Interactions among simultaneous elections8
Do voters want domestic politicians to scrutinize the European Union?8
Local elections do not increase local news demand7
The effect of terrorist attacks on attitudes and its duration7
Democratic commitment in the Middle East: a conjoint analysis7
Oil discoveries and political windfalls: evidence on presidential support in Uganda7
Do external threats increase bipartisanship in the United States? An experimental test in the shadow of China's rise7
Voter turnout and selective abstention in concurrent votes7
What to expect when you're electing: citizen forecasts in the 2020 election7
Are rural attitudes just Republican?7
After defeat: how governing parties respond to electoral loss7
Boys, girls, and children: gender and question-wording in the measurement of authoritarianism6
Racial resentment and support for COVID-19 travel bans in the United States6
RAM volume 10 issue 2 Cover and Front matter6
Atypical violence and conflict dynamics: evidence from Jerusalem6
Subject to change: quantifying transformation in armed conflict actors at scale using text6
Strengthening mainstream consensus? The effect of radical right populist parties on the defense policies of left parties6
Does ideology influence hiring in China? evidence from two randomized experiments6
The best at the top? Candidate ranking strategies under closed list proportional representation6
Foreign faith and rising state: An examination of state-building dynamics in late 16th-century Japan6
Yellow peril or model minority? Measuring Janus-faced prejudice toward Asians in the United States6
The bureaucratic politics of authoritarian repression: intra-agency reform and surveillance capacity in communist Poland6
Conservative bias in perceptions of public opinion among citizens: perceived social norms about abortion rights in post-Roe United States6
Intra-ethnic divisions and disagreement over self-determination demands in ethnic movements5
Accountability from cyberspace? Scandal exposure on the Internet and official governance in China5
Stance detection: a practical guide to classifying political beliefs in text5
Do the Bretton Woods Institutions promote economic transparency?5
Political shocks and asset prices5
Evaluating methods for examining the relative persuasiveness of policy arguments5
Is compulsory voting a solution to low and declining turnout? Cross-national evidence since 19454
Presidential policymaking, 1877–20204
Congressional support for democratic norms on January 6th4
Conceptualizing and measuring early campaign fundraising in congressional elections4
When hearts meet minds: complementary effects of perspective-getting and information on refugee inclusion – ERRATUM4
Who cares? Measuring differences in preference intensity4
The variation in firm lobbying by political regime: can it explain trade and currency policy differences?4
RAM volume 10 issue 4 Cover and Front matter4
Does interstate conflict affect attitudes towards domestic minorities? Evidence from India4
Compulsory civic duty and turnout: evidence from a natural experiment3
The rhyme and reason of rebel support: exploring European voters’ attitudes toward dissident MPs3
Is terrorism necessarily violent? Public perceptions of nonviolence and terrorism in conflict settings3
Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties3
The effects of forced versus selective exposure to propaganda in China3
What moves (spending) mood? The nature and origins of parallel public preferences3
How the refugee crisis and radical right parties shape party competition on immigration3
Institutionalizing the autocratic penalty away: fiscal rules, autocracy, and sovereign financial market access3
Taking dyads seriously3
Cooperation through collective punishment and participation3
Income, education, and policy priorities3
Hot topics: Denial-of-Service attacks on news websites in autocracies3
Multidimensional conflicts over disarmament and international security: analyzing speeches in the First Committee of the UN General Assembly3
Affective polarization and coalition signals3
Coalition policy in multiparty governments: whose preferences prevail3
Does mainstream populism work? Populist rhetoric and the electoral fortunes of mainstream parties3
Polarization but not populism strengthens the association between presidential election results and emotions3
Measuring time preferences in large surveys3
How social desirability bias impacts the expression of emotions3
The BIAT and the AMP as measures of racial prejudice in political science: A methodological assessment3
The accountability of politicians in international crises and the nature of audience cost3
Dismantling the “Jungle”: migrant relocation and extreme voting in France2
Driving turnout: the effect of car ownership on electoral participation2
RAM volume 10 issue 1 Cover and Front matter2
Are pro-immigrant messages ineffective? Moralization as a rhetorical strategy for mainstream parties2
Electoral participation and satisfaction with democracy in central and Eastern Europe – ERRATUM2
The unsettled effect of physical height on political preferences2
Linking datasets on organizations using half a billion open-collaborated records2
Europeans’ attitudes toward the EU following Russia's invasion of Ukraine2
Campaign communication and legislative leadership2
Coup-proofing: latent concept and measurement2
Trading integrity for competence? The public's varying preferences for bureaucratic types across government levels in China2
The fall of Trump: mobilization and vote switching in the 2020 presidential election2
Bureaucratic autonomy and the policymaking capacity of United States agencies, 1998–20212
Stimulated political decisions: local leadership turnover and firm subsidies in China2
Sharing citizenship: economic competition, cultural threat, and immigration preferences in the rentier state2
RAM volume 10 issue 3 Cover and Front matter2
Explaining women's political underrepresentation in democracies with high levels of corruption2
A careful consideration of CLARIFY: simulation-induced bias in point estimates of quantities of interest2
Affective partisan polarization and moral dilemmas during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Changing stereotypes of partisans in the Trump Era2
Do citizens vote against incumbents who permit local immigration? Evidence from the Mariel Boatlift2
Education, public support for institutions, and the separation of powers2
How to improve the substantive interpretation of regression results when the dependent variable is logged2
Increasing intergovernmental coordination to fight crime: evidence from Mexico2
A Bayesian multifactor spatio-temporal model for estimating time-varying network interdependence2
How to improve the substantive interpretation of regression results when the dependent variable is logged – ERRATUM2
Diversity and violence during conflict migration: The Troubles in Northern Ireland2
RAM volume 10 issue 1 Cover and Back matter2
Reassessing World Bank conditionality: beyond count measures2
Making countries small: The nationalization of districts in the United States2
How strong are international standards in practice? Evidence from cryptocurrency transactions2
Coalition inclusion probabilities: a party-strategic measure for predicting policy and politics1
Can citizens guess how other citizens voted based on demographic characteristics?1
Measurement error when surveying issue positions: a MultiTrait MultiError approach1
Bayesian reasoning for qualitative replication analysis: Examples from climate politics1
How and when candidate race affects inferences about ideology and group favoritism1
The (in)effectiveness of populist rhetoric: a conjoint experiment of campaign messaging1
RAM volume 9 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
RAM volume 10 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
Fiscal opportunity coupled with political willingness? Unpacking the effects of TELs and partisan governments on income inequality in the American states, 1986–20201
Spatial modeling of dyadic geopolitical interactions between moving actors1
Risk and demand for social protection in an era of populism1
Asian American Racial Threat and Support for Racially Discriminatory Policy1
Quality of legislation and compliance: a natural language processing approach1
Social segregation, inter-group contact, and discriminatory policing1
Can autocratic power influence the media in democracies? Evidence from China's expulsion of American journalists1
Belief in territorial indivisibility and public preferences for dispute resolution1
Estimating the effect of intergroup contact over years: evidence from a youth program in Israel1
Coalition Inclusion Probabilities: A Party-Strategic Measure for Predicting Policy and Politics – CORRIGENDUM1
Female mayors and violence against women: evidence from Mexico1
Discounting extreme positions: party normalization and support for the far right1
The direct cost to voters of polling site closures and consolidation1
A racial reckoning? racial attitudes in the wake of the murder of George Floyd1
Electoral participation and satisfaction with democracy in Central and Eastern Europe1
Why do majoritarian systems benefit the right? Income groups and vote choice across different electoral systems1
Criminal fragmentation in Mexico1
Opportunistic rebel tactics in civil war: Evidence from Colombia1
The making of the boy who cried wolf: fake news and media skepticism1
ecolRxC: Ecological inference estimation of R × C tables using latent structure approaches1
The impact of university attendance on partisanship1
Economic evaluations and partisan faultfinding: when are respondents most likely to answer survey questions honestly?1
Heroes and villains: motivated projection of political identities1
Facial finetuning: using pretrained image classification models to predict politicians’ success1
What drives perceptions of partisan cooperation?1
Who decides who gets in? Diplomats, bureaucrats, and visa issuance1
Understanding the impact of the 2018 voter ID pilots on turnout at the London local elections: A synthetic difference-in-difference approach1
Do presidents favor co-partisan mayors in the allocation of federal grants? – ADDENDUM1
Analyze the attentive and bypass bias: mock vignette checks in survey experiments1
Exposure to anti-refugee hate crimes and support for refugees in Germany1
Challenger entry and electoral accountability1
K Street on main: legislative turnover and multi-client lobbying1
When do different systems of government lead to similar power-sharing? The case of government formation1
Inclusive meritocracy: ability and descriptive representation among Danish politicians1
Assessing the relative influence of party unity on vote choice: evidence from a conjoint experiment1
The effects of state coercion on voting outcome in protest movements: a causal forest approach1
Public and expert preferences in survey experiments in foreign policy: evidence from parallel conjoint analyses1
How should we estimate inverse probability weights with possibly misspecified propensity score models?1
Justice-level heterogeneity in certiorari voting: US Supreme Court October terms 1939, 1968, and 19821
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